Sheila Bridges may have racked up awards for high-profile interior decor work, and she may cut a demure figure in profiles from Town & Country and Traditional Home magazines, but it's the Philly native's wit and cheek through design that has us wanting to remodel with her hand-printed wallpaper.
At first glance, Bridges' Harlem Toile de Jouy seems to be a faithful rendering of the classic pastoral-scene print that Marie Antoinette used throughout the Versailles Palace, but look closer: Here, a couple dances next to a fat 1980s stereo, there, a boy soars to dunk a basket through a hoop. Bridges' satire of African-American stereotypes is as rich and layered as the gorgeous print itself.
written on Tuesday Jul 31, 2007
Versailles,
basketball,
wallpaper.
